Catherine Herbst – managing director

1. What is the most daring thing you have ever done? Start Power of 9.
2. Dinner with friends or dancing all night long? Dinner with friends.
3. Often overheard saying… Things my mother said that drove me crazy and that I swore I would never say…
4. What’s in your CD player? Janis Joplin’s Box of Pearls collection.
5. Most proud of… My children (cliché but true).
6. If you had a time machine, where would you go? 15 August 1969, Max Yasgur’s farm near Bethel New York.
7. What are your top pet peeves? Laziness, lies and dirty finger nails.
8. Recommended reads: Anything by John Connolly; the man is a literary genius.
9. Most memorable movie lines: J.M. Barrie: “Write about anything. Write about your family, write about the talking whale!” J.M. Barrie: “The one that’s trapped in your imagination and desperate to get out.” Finding Neverland

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Daryl Glass – creative director

1. Ideal super power: the power to materialise cheeseburgers on demand.
2. On a Saturday morning you will most likely find me… chasing after an 18 month old.
3. Most daring thing you ever did? Mailed a gift voucher through our national postal service.
4. Often overheard saying… I should not talk to myself in front of the juniors.
5. Most proud of… My kid
6. Recommended reads: Life of Pi, Nobody True. Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Sugargirls and Seamen, The Great Gatsby, Da Vinci Code.
7. Favourite cartoon/animation series? Cow and Chicken, Ren and Stimpy
8. Pet peeves: Uno’s, Mullets, Uno drivers with mullets, and the Morkels lady.
9. Most memorable movie line: “Say hello to my little friend” – Scarface

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Wikus Ferreira – art director

1. Ideal super power: The ultimate anti-emo that can fly.
2. On a Saturday morning you will most likely find me… getting ready for the rugby … VRYSTAAT!
3. What is the most daring thing you ever did? Break into a castle, seriously.
4. Most intrigued by… Political Correctness and how it fails modern humanity.
5. What is man’s best invention? Sport’s day Saturdays
6. If you had a time machine, where would you go? The Jurassic – with a hunting rifle, or 18th century Caribbean, arrrggghh.
7. Favourite outfit: T-shirt, board-shorts and flip-flops.
8. Absolute indulgences is … My ma se kos – i.e. The Clogger Meal.
9. What/who do you admire and why? Os du Randt – The man is a mountain of awesomeness.

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Monique Boucher – content manager / junior copywriter

1. I never leave home without … sunscreen, sunglasses and a big bottle of water.
2. Dream destination: Italy
3. Most memorable movie line: “The things you own end up owning you.” – Tyler Durden (Fight Club 1999).
4. Chips or chocolate? Dark chocolate
5. Most intrigued by … people and why we do what we do.
6. Favourite cartoon/animation series? X-men
7. When you were a kid you dreamed of … becoming a spy (a female version of James Bond).
8. Favourite outfit: Jeans, sneakers/flat pumps, t-shirt, zip-up hoody and earrings for some girlyness.
9. In my CD player: Zebra & Giraffe

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Thembi Baleni – admin assistant

1. Nickname: Laks
2. Often overheard saying… “whatever”
3. Most proud of … being a mother to a beautiful girl.
4. If you won the lotto what would be the first thing you would buy? a farm
5. Perfect pizza: Hawaiian
6. I never leave home without: Zam-buk
7. What/who do you admire and why? Thami Ngobeni, author of Sacred Space. I found her book inspiring.
8. Dinner with friends or dancing all night long? Dinner with friends.
9. Chips or chocolate? Chips – Doritos

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Posted: Monday, September 7th, 2009 @ 6:01 pm
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